dotnet-grpc

dotnet-grpc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building gRPC services and clients in .NET, where gRPC is a way for backend programs to communicate using defined message contracts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for service-to-service communication, protobuf contracts, streaming calls, interceptors, performance work, and decisions between gRPC, HTTP APIs, and SignalR.
Why use it?
It helps choose suitable communication patterns, handle streaming and connection details, and avoid using gRPC where a browser-facing HTTP API fits better.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for service-to-service communication, protobuf contracts, streaming calls, interceptors, performance work, and decisions between gRPC, HTTP APIs, and SignalR.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills/dotnet-grpc
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills --skill dotnet-grpc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,203 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.03203
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01602
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00320

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7eb0e141bb2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-grpc scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/dotnet-grpc/SKILL.md · 461 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 461 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gRPC for .NET

Trigger On

  • building backend-to-backend RPC services or clients
  • adding protobuf contracts, streaming calls, or interceptors
  • deciding between gRPC, HTTP APIs, and SignalR
  • optimizing gRPC performance and connection management
  • implementing service-to-service communication in microservices

Documentation

References

  • patterns.md - Detailed proto patterns, streaming implementations, interceptors, health checks, and load balancing
  • anti-patterns.md - Common gRPC mistakes with explanations and corrections

Workflow

  1. Use gRPC where low-latency backend communication, strong contracts, or streaming are the real drivers.
  2. Treat .proto files as source of truth and keep generated code ownership clear.
  3. Choose unary, server streaming, client streaming, or bidirectional streaming based on the interaction model, not by default.
  4. Do not use gRPC for broad browser-facing APIs unless the limitations and gRPC-Web tradeoffs are explicitly acceptable.
  5. Handle deadlines, cancellation, auth, and retry behavior explicitly on both server and client paths.
  6. Validate contract changes carefully because gRPC drift breaks callers fast.

Service Patterns

Basic Unary Service

// greeter.proto
syntax = "proto3";

option csharp_namespace = "GrpcService";

package greet;

service Greeter {
  rpc SayHello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply);
}

message HelloRequest {
  string name = 1;
}

message HelloReply {
  string message = 1;
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 461 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 461 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 7eb0e141bb2b

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dotnet-grpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,203 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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